scholarly journals Enhancing the Practitioner's Sense of Time, Place, and Practice: the History of Chinese Medicine for Practitioners Workshop

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-354
Author(s):  
Marta Hanson ◽  
Andy Pham
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
International Congress ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sixth International

This article reproduces an exchange between academics and practitioners at the Sixth International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine (ICTAM VI) meeting in Austin about how the history of Chinese medicine could be more meaningful, interesting, and valuable to clinicians. It provides a brief history of exchanges, the panel proposal, the abstracts of the panelists, an edited transcript of the conversation, and some concluding remarks from the participants. As more and more practitioners of Chinese medicine outside of China spend time in China, learn Chinese, become culturally and linguistically bilingual or multilingual, they seek more knowledge about what they practise than they can get in current publications in English or other European languages. The panel and this article are intended to encourage further exchange, conversations, and cooperation that will lead to new histories of Chinese medicine relevant for practitioners as much as for other academics.

scholarly journals Fighting Medical Racism with Education and Action

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-360
Author(s):  
Yi-Li Wu ◽  
Denise Tyson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
State Level ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medical Career ◽  
American Society ◽  
Race And Health

Abstract Denise Tyson is the president of the Maryland Acupuncture Society (US), one of the state-level professional organizations that comprises the American Society of Acupuncturists. Following the police murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, she called on her colleagues in the acupuncture profession to take meaningful action against racism and to educate themselves about the long history of racist violence against African Americans. In July 2020 an editor of Asian Medicine interviewed Tyson to learn about her medical career and her perspectives on race and health care. The main themes of the interview include: her affinity for acupuncture and Chinese medicine, her experiences with racial bias in both biomedicine and integrative medicine, strategies for making acupuncture organizations more inclusive, and the crucial role that education plays in combating racism.

Sixth International Congress of Entomology, Madrid (1935): politics and science

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-297
Author(s):  
C. Martín Albaladejo ◽  
F. Carmona Vivar
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Scientific Investigations ◽  
Second Spanish Republic ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
Sixth International

Using the Sixth International Congress of Entomology (Madrid, 1935) as an example, we present a representative case of science as a social construct and its importance to the history of the winning side of a war to construct a memory that supports its own version of events. The Congress was held prior to the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939); however, the proceedings were not published until 1940. An examination of the proceedings and of archival documents show the exclusion of contributions initially intended for publication, particularly those by Spanish entomologists who were politically aligned with the Second Spanish Republic, the losing side, and who, as a result, suffered reprisals after the military conflict. These documents suggest that their contributions were rejected for reasons unrelated to their scientific investigations but due to the political inclinations of the editor.

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